Tauiwi general practitioners explanations of Maori health: Colonial relations in primary healthcare in Aotearoa/New Zealand?
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2002
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McCreanor T
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SAGE Publications
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Abstract
This article reports initial findings
from qualitative research
investigating how general
practitioners talk about Maori
health. Transcripts of semistructured
interviews with 25
general practitioners from urban
Auckland were subjected to critical
discursive analyses. Through this
process of intensive, analytic
reading, interpretative
repertoires—patterns of words and
images about a particular topic—
were identified. This article presents
the main features of one such
repertoire, termed Maori
Morbidity, that the general
practitioners used in accounting for
poor Maori health status. Our
participants were drawing upon a
circumscribed pool of ideas and
explaining the inequalities in health
between Maori and Tauiwi in ways
that gave primacy to characteristics
of Maori and their culture. We
discuss the implications of this
conclusion for relations between
Maori patients and Tauiwi doctors
in primary healthcare settings.
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Maori health status, Primary health care
Citation
McCreanor, T., & Nairn, R. (2002). Tauiwi general practitioners explanations of Maori health: Colonial relations in primary healthcare in Aotearoa/New Zealand? Journal of Health Psychology, 7(5), 509-518. doi: 10.1177/1359105302007005670